.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 355 219
Rank change year-on-year +101 -136 -64
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 738 308 816
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.71% 0.71% 1.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.97% 4.15% 5.73%
Number of salaries quoted 677 279 578
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £108,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £63,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -13.39% +10.43% -4.17%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 10,593 7,414 14,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.22% 17.09% 21.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,666 4,888 8,848
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £112,500
UK median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 9 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +91 192 £57,500 - 50
North of England +38 179 £55,000 - 44
East of England +49 105 £60,000 +14.29% 11
Midlands +37 100 £55,000 -8.33% 13
London -118 90 £78,750 -1.56% 111
South West -33 73 £52,500 - 7
North East -1 71 £65,000 +33.33% 12
North West +3 69 £55,000 -8.33% 20
West Midlands +6 59 £55,000 -8.33% 9
East Midlands +2 41 £50,000 -16.67% 4
Yorkshire -10 39 £47,500 -20.83% 13
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (2.17%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.76%) IIS
3 11 (1.49%) CMS
4 7 (0.95%) Confluence
4 7 (0.95%) Umbraco
5 4 (0.54%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.54%) Kentico
5 4 (0.54%) Sitecore CMS
6 3 (0.41%) DNN
6 3 (0.41%) EPiServer
6 3 (0.41%) Immediacy CMS
6 3 (0.41%) Sitefinity
7 1 (0.14%) Apache
7 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.14%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.14%) Magento
2 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 603 (81.71%) Azure
2 214 (29.00%) Azure DevOps
3 151 (20.46%) GitHub
4 135 (18.29%) AWS
5 134 (18.16%) GitHub Copilot
6 129 (17.48%) Azure AI
7 71 (9.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 33 (4.47%) Azure Logic Apps
9 31 (4.20%) Power Platform
10 29 (3.93%) Azure Service Bus
11 25 (3.39%) Power Automate
12 24 (3.25%) Azure Monitor
13 22 (2.98%) Serverless
14 21 (2.85%) Azure Key Vault
14 21 (2.85%) PowerApps
15 17 (2.30%) Google Play
16 16 (2.17%) SaaS
17 13 (1.76%) Azure Functions
18 12 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
18 12 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 45 (6.10%) Internet
2 6 (0.81%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.41%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.27%) Firewall
5 1 (0.14%) HTTP
5 1 (0.14%) Network Security
5 1 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 420 (56.91%) Azure SQL Database
2 359 (48.64%) MongoDB
3 150 (20.33%) Elasticsearch
4 132 (17.89%) SQL Server
5 27 (3.66%) Relational Database
6 24 (3.25%) Power BI
7 21 (2.85%) MySQL
8 17 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (1.63%) Redis
10 11 (1.49%) NonStop SQL
11 10 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (1.08%) NoSQL
14 7 (0.95%) Geospatial Data
14 7 (0.95%) GIS
15 3 (0.41%) Crystal Reports
15 3 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (0.41%) ZAP BI
16 2 (0.27%) MariaDB
17 1 (0.14%) HBase
Development Applications
1 73 (9.89%) Git
2 16 (2.17%) NUnit
3 15 (2.03%) JIRA
4 13 (1.76%) Visual Studio
5 10 (1.36%) GitLab
6 8 (1.08%) TeamCity
7 7 (0.95%) MSI
8 6 (0.81%) Jenkins
9 5 (0.68%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.68%) Postman
9 5 (0.68%) Snyk
10 4 (0.54%) Claude Code
11 3 (0.41%) JUnit
11 3 (0.41%) Selenium
11 3 (0.41%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.14%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 102 (13.82%) Finance
2 75 (10.16%) Social Skills
3 54 (7.32%) Advertising
4 42 (5.69%) Games
5 38 (5.15%) Marketing
6 33 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (3.93%) Retail
8 24 (3.25%) Public Sector
9 19 (2.57%) Law
10 14 (1.90%) Aerospace
11 11 (1.49%) Banking
11 11 (1.49%) Music Industry
12 10 (1.36%) Legal
13 7 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (0.68%) Local Government
14 5 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.54%) Back Office
15 4 (0.54%) Investment Banking
15 4 (0.54%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 625 (84.69%) Developer
2 520 (70.46%) .NET Developer
3 94 (12.74%) Senior
4 68 (9.21%) Senior Developer
5 62 (8.40%) Software Developer
6 59 (7.99%) C# Developer
7 46 (6.23%) Lead
8 44 (5.96%) C# .NET Developer
9 39 (5.28%) Full-Stack Developer
10 37 (5.01%) Software Engineer
11 30 (4.07%) Senior .NET Developer
12 29 (3.93%) Lead Developer
12 29 (3.93%) Senior C# Developer
13 22 (2.98%) .NET Software Developer
13 22 (2.98%) Senior Software Developer
14 20 (2.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 20 (2.71%) Lead .NET Developer
15 17 (2.30%) .NET Developer - Fintech
15 17 (2.30%) .NET Software Engineer
15 17 (2.30%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 738 (100.00%) .NET
2 492 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 434 (58.81%) ASP.NET Core
4 229 (31.03%) CSS
5 227 (30.76%) HTML
6 221 (29.95%) Entity Framework
7 206 (27.91%) Blazor
7 206 (27.91%) React
8 194 (26.29%) AngularJS
9 178 (24.12%) RESTful
10 167 (22.63%) ASP.NET Web API
11 161 (21.82%) Vue
12 151 (20.46%) Node.js
13 142 (19.24%) .NET Framework
14 126 (17.07%) ML.NET
15 107 (14.50%) LINQ
16 77 (10.43%) REST
17 42 (5.69%) JSON
18 32 (4.34%) WPF
19 27 (3.66%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 86 (11.65%) Greenfield Project
2 63 (8.54%) Enterprise Software
3 21 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
4 20 (2.71%) Mobile App
5 19 (2.57%) Digital TV
6 18 (2.44%) Cloud Native
7 17 (2.30%) iPhone
8 14 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (1.90%) Product Ownership
9 11 (1.49%) Sports Betting
10 10 (1.36%) BBC
10 10 (1.36%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.36%) Social Media
10 10 (1.36%) Social Network
11 9 (1.22%) Low-Code
12 7 (0.95%) Algorithms
12 7 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
12 7 (0.95%) Tandem
13 6 (0.81%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.12%) Windows
2 17 (2.30%) Android
3 4 (0.54%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.27%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 499 (67.62%) Full-Stack Development
2 392 (53.12%) Agile
3 267 (36.18%) CI/CD
4 254 (34.42%) DevOps
5 209 (28.32%) Microservices
6 163 (22.09%) AI
7 137 (18.56%) Multithreading
8 135 (18.29%) Machine Learning
9 102 (13.82%) Scrum
10 91 (12.33%) Software Engineering
11 80 (10.84%) OO
11 80 (10.84%) TDD
12 66 (8.94%) BDD
13 62 (8.40%) Kanban
14 58 (7.86%) Problem-Solving
15 57 (7.72%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
15 57 (7.72%) Mentoring
16 48 (6.50%) SDLC
17 47 (6.37%) Continuous Improvement
18 46 (6.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 687 (93.09%) C#
2 487 (65.99%) SQL
3 255 (34.55%) JavaScript
4 195 (26.42%) TypeScript
5 25 (3.39%) Python
6 16 (2.17%) PowerShell
7 13 (1.76%) T-SQL
8 12 (1.63%) Java
9 10 (1.36%) VBA
10 9 (1.22%) Bicep
11 4 (0.54%) Bash
11 4 (0.54%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.54%) Ruby
11 4 (0.54%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.41%) Go
12 3 (0.41%) VBScript
13 2 (0.27%) C
13 2 (0.27%) Dart
14 1 (0.14%) Delphi
14 1 (0.14%) PHP
Qualifications
1 60 (8.13%) Degree
2 28 (3.79%) SC Cleared
2 28 (3.79%) Security Cleared
3 21 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (1.08%) Master's Degree
5 6 (0.81%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.41%) Azure Certification
6 3 (0.41%) ICAEW
6 3 (0.41%) OCP
6 3 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.34%) QA
2 24 (3.25%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.95%) NCSC
3 7 (0.95%) WCAG
4 4 (0.54%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.41%) GDPR
5 3 (0.41%) NIST
6 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.14%) Basel III
System Software
1 184 (24.93%) Docker
2 1 (0.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 162 (21.95%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.41%) Ansible
2 3 (0.41%) Grafana
2 3 (0.41%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.14%) Control-M
Vendors
1 493 (66.80%) Microsoft
2 50 (6.78%) Facebook
3 44 (5.96%) Google
4 21 (2.85%) YouTube
5 10 (1.36%) Apple
5 10 (1.36%) Sony
5 10 (1.36%) Yahoo!
6 9 (1.22%) Adobe
7 7 (0.95%) OpenAI
8 6 (0.81%) Red Hat
9 4 (0.54%) Sitecore
9 4 (0.54%) Splunk
10 3 (0.41%) Alterian
10 3 (0.41%) Optimizely
10 3 (0.41%) Workday
11 2 (0.27%) CrowdStrike
11 2 (0.27%) Databricks
11 2 (0.27%) IFS
11 2 (0.27%) Sage
11 2 (0.27%) Veracode